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Does boiling water really work?
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:30:04 +0100, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Martin Brown wrote: On 22/08/2016 16:51, James Wilkinson wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:11:26 +0100, Martin Brown wrote: On 21/08/2016 21:38, James Wilkinson wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:18:29 +0100, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: On 21/08/2016 20:46, James Wilkinson wrote: I just watched this, and he claims it kills 90% of weeds instantly. So Its the remaining 10% of each and every weed that grows back again. You can find plenty of clueless idiots on the internet claiming all sorts of gibberish. If you put enough table salt on weeds it will kill them. 90% sounds bloody good to me. I've tried various weedkillers and nothing achieved anything like that. 90% of the weed might be dead but the 10% is still alive. Stupid is as stupid does. More fool you if you believe his crap. why does anyone use weedkiller? Isn't this cheaper, easier, and more effective? https://youtu.be/qm_X-XBINCs It's effectively the same as using a weed wand, except that a weed wand is more portable, and I would assume is safer. But I'd have to buy one, I already have a kettle. Stupid is as stupid does. It is hard to beat glyphosate for economic control of weeds as a general purpose weedkiller. Boiling water will use hundreds of times more resources to do the same job. Nope, costs very little to boil loads of kettles. Just over a penny a litre, even with electricity. No weedkiller is anything like that cheap. Depends how you use it. Generic glyphosate is way cheaper for a bulk kill when used correctly. Which I already have to do with weedkiller. Despite what they say, weedkiller does not last long at all. Depends on the weedkiller although the ones that are persistent have mostly been banned now for domestic use as they were abused. The new formulations of pathclear are good for most of a season but some weeds are immune to the new germination inhibitors. A good one was paraquat, the electricity board used it around their substations. Unfortunately it gave everyone cancer (and the idiots blamed the magnetism....) No it didn't. The reason paraquat was banned is because it is exceedingly toxic to humans and became the suicide poison of choice. It was a particularly nasty one too since just as the suicide patient was seemingly about to recover and want to live just as they died of multiple organ failure. Extoxnet allows that the stuff might possibly be carcinogenic in humans but the acute toxicity was the reason for the ban. (The video claims it kills the roots, but doesn't offer any evidence.) I'm not so sure burning with gas would be any different. Both are only killing what is on display. But then pouring lots of boiling water on at once could get to the root. [I've bought a steam cleaner for use in the kitchen. I've been thinking of trying it on "patio weeds".] It will work after a fashion if you are terrified by "chemicals" and don't mind the environmental pollution caused by using large amounts of energy to achieve very little by way of useful results. Since weedkiller costs many many many times more than the fuel to boil the steam, it's clear that it must also use more resources. Only if you are exceptionally stupid. Which he is. Please don't feed the troll: Aka: Peter Hucker: Phucker: Uncle Peter: Tough Guy: James Wilkinson: Lieutenant Scot: Etc, etc, etc. But, you knew this anyway :-) Says the guy so stupid he has to come here to ask about growing grass. -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. |
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